NULL pointer dereference in PHP - CVE-2018-19935

 

NULL pointer dereference in PHP - CVE-2018-19935

Published: December 7, 2018 / Updated: December 7, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16315
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19935
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to NULL pointer dereference in _php_imap_mail when improper check of wheater message. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted message, trigger NULL pointer dereference and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

PHP
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
Opensuse
php

How to mitigate CVE-2018-19935

The vulnerability has been addressed in the versions 5.6.39, 7.0.33, 7.3.0.

PHP - addressed in versions 5.6.39, 7.0.33, 7.3.0
php - addressed in versions 7.2.13-2.fc28, 7.2.13-2.fc29

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